June 23, 2017

It was an absolutely gorgeous morning in the Bay. Blue Sky and warm right from the start. Ken went out to check his crab traps first thing, and had 2 keepers. Greg checked ours but no keepers. He is not surprised, it's a gift.

So we are invited over to Reiki Master for crab for lunch. Before that, it's showers and I made some strawberry and rhubarb crumble. (Had to make room in the freezer for halibut). Ken brought the cooler full of guts over to our boat so Greg could take what he wanted to save for crab bait. Man, there were a lot of guts. Yucky guts. So he made up some baggies of stuff and then the rest went overboard. Then he cleaned the cooler out - yuck! And then we had to find more room in the freezer for the bait too!

Greg put the fishing rod in the water for a while, but nothing interesting. We could see Kim and Emily on Reiki Master do the same, but there was nothing happening for anyone today. We had fresh cooked crab and garlic toast for lunch on Reiki Master and then we all packed up to leave around 1:15. There was a slack at "The Narrows" at 13:50 so we wanted to be there around then. We ended up arriving in Wrangell around 4:00 and it was an uneventful ride over. A bit of wind and current but not much. Once around Wrangell it was no wind and glassy and really warm.

Ken brought over some halibut that they had left out for tonights dinner. We offered to cook dinner since they had been hosting everything for the past couple of days. So we got caught on on email, the weather, and events in the world for about an hour and then started preparing dinner. Ken, Kim, and Emily came over around 6:00 for dinner and we even sat on the flybridge for some beers an appetizers first! It was that warm. Then we all squeezed into the salon for dinner and dessert.